"Whatever" I spell it is "pedophilia," and if that's what floats your boat, go for it. I'd rather have pedophiles writing fictional stories about child porn and use that as an outlet, rather than using real kids, see what I'm getting at?
If people ain't listening, DP, maybe it's because your screaming makes our ears ring. Just a random thought. No, sorry, I meant JUST A RANDOM THOUGHT!!
A Star Destroyer has a crew numbering in the thousands, but X-Wing doesn't get classified as a mass murder game.
God I love that game. Let's not forget blowing the Death Star up, and its crew of several hundred thousand, possibly even in the millions if you factor in prisoners, slave labor, etc.
Some people have a "geek code", which is a long string of letters and symbols which indicates exactly what they're into. For instance, people who like different things in a particular fandom (for instance they prefer the original series of Star Trek to the Next Generation) have a letter or symbol to indicate this. To the uninitiated, these are just gibberish. What if this were done to rate the stories? If people didn't want to know the ending, they could choose not to learn the code, and if they wanted to read or avoid popping stories, they could learn what that bit meant. Would that make everyone happy?
Wouldnt it be awesome if this turned into a discussion like the one on Clerks, about whether the rebels should have taken into a account the innocent workers working at the Death Star, who died when they blew it up?
Something Ataru said caught my attention. Its about the karma thing. Most people who pop in these stories deserve it. For me, thats kind of arousing. Both deserving and not, they have their own spectrum in our minds, right?
I think Kane put this into perspective. If its gonna be done...whatever. I agree with the first option as well. Ive been looking forward to a comprehensive categorization for a long time. Over the years I had seen other sites, dead by now, that had their own rating. Dimensions has their own system with codes so you would know what to expect. I take it Kane plans something similar here?
Man, I take a day off from this shit and there's a whole new page with even Luther weighing in.
Alright: Darth: I do understand, really. I just don't agree. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
I got involved in this hoping for it to be a discussion about popping, because I honestly haven't seen one in the community yet; but it's turning a bit heated. I'm not trying to throw stones here Ataru; although I admit I did come in a bit angry over Darth's "grow some man-berries" comment.
And speaking of which: If that's gonna ruin your whole day man; find a hobby. Get a copy of WOW or a bottle of Jack Daniels or something. Shit, get both if you've got the money.
As for the point of people dying in stories all the time: true, but I guess there should be a seperate division in this for people who take this sexually and for people who don't. When someone dies in an action story/movie/game/whatever, you know, it's there to further the story, whether you like it or not. When someone dies in a porn, it tends to get a bit more complicated. I think that's what bothers me the most.
And I realize this is really cartoony and all, but I tend to look at things more realistically; that's just how I roll. I can't seperate it. That's why in my stories I bend over backwards to explain how someone is inflating; even if it's just the classic cop-out of "MAGIC!"
So I don't know, this seems to have degenerated into the two sides saying: "Yeah, I know what you're saying, but-" ad nauseum.
So my point is: I think the stories should be marked, the mouse-over thing was something I was actually going to suggest. Maybe have them in seperate columns, one for sexuality rating, one for berries, one for popping, one for inflation type; and have them each mouse-over. That way someone could, say, see if it had blueberries in the story without ruining the surprise of popping. That would probably be a bitch to program though.
As for popping: I look at it realistically, but I'm not trying to hate on you guys for not looking at it that way. Most of the time I actually don't really mind popping as long as it's not like the chick crying and begging for her life or something first.
And I'm out.
Popping stories disturb me somewhat.
Though, I can think of something worse than that.
Poor writing.
As an artist who draws alot of popping or popping implied works, i have my own feelings on the subject.
I'll admit that at first i was really disturbed by popping. But as time went on, the more fantasy side of it crept into place and i started understanding it a bit more. I'm one of those people who is absolutely terrified of death, so having someone suggest that i'm sexualy aroused by the idea of killing someone really really ifuriates me, especially since i DRAW artwork pertaining to the subject.
For me, it's all cartoony. I never picture gore, i never picture death. It's just quick, painless, pleasurable popping. There may be flutters of rubbery confettie that fall afterwards, but no blood, no gore, nothing remotely realistic about it.
Also, because i'm an artist, i draw the same characters over and over again. I've popping CattyN so many times... yet she's still here... why is that? She should be 'dead' but she's not. I won't go so far as to say she 'regenerates' or anything, but like i said earlier... it's like a cartoon. A character can blow up and explode and by all logic they should be dead, but then the next scene comes along and they're just fine. That's the logic that I follow. To me, the popping is like the sexual climax. All the inflation is building up TO that climax and you need to have it otherwise it's not 'satisfying.'
You may not understand or like it, but please don't call my work death oriented.
Drawings were never much of a problem for me, for the reason that CattyN stated (though, I don't really like the gory drawings, and thats not just for popping ones). Stories are where I have the problem, I have an imagine that can get really graphic when it comes to violence and pain. I don't have to use it when looking at drawings, so thats why they don't bother me as much.
Also, popping could be a bit of sadomasochism. I think that everyone has a little of that in them.
Arc....were you implying that popping implies bad writing? You need to read Carnatic's latest then.
Most popping stories are really well written. I mean, they have to be, you have to be sensible to the reader in order to pop someone. You cant just say "...and she went on inflating until she exploded. End". Ive never even seen that.
Caffiene, Im sorry that my man-berries comment bothered you. It was mean, and I understand it...but I dont feel like taking it back. Its what I was feeling at the moment, and a little part of me still thinks so.
Arc....were you implying that popping implies bad writing?
I never said that, I was saying that there are worse things than a story with a minor thing that you don't like, bad writing is one of those "worse than that" things.
*Sighs* Alright people break it up, I'm a popper as any of you who know me can vouch for. As for popping yes such stories should be marked, as some people absolutely freak at such lines. I should know I curently run an inflation dream in an online game, and some folks will raise a storm no mater what kind of popping. Now if a rating system was to go into effect I think a distinction would have to be made between toon and gone pops. In other words perhaps an extra marking to tell poppers which have the poppee coming back and which are the big finale pops, one pop is all a character gets. After all, some poppers even freak at a pop where nothing comes back. So perhaps in whatever is adopted that difference can be noted as well. Thank you and may we all have interesting days
DigDug, public enemy number one.
Exactly. For some people, like those Tippsey says he encounters, Dig Dug is as bad as Grand Theft Auto.
Archangel, ok then, i misinterpreted.
Dude, there was no need for that.